Re: CURRENT, usr/src on git, howto "mergemaster"?

From: Marek Zarychta <zarychtam_at_plan-b.pwste.edu.pl>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 17:36:00 +0100
W dniu 04.01.2021 o 17:14, Warner Losh pisze:

> etcupdate does a full three merge, while mergemaster fakes it in a number
> of ways. etcupdate directly keeps track of the resolutions, which is why
> $FreeBSD$ doesn't matter so much to it.
> 
> mergemaster is deprecated and will likely be removed from the system
> because it has no maintainer and is quite a bit harder to keep working than
> etcupdate.
> 

Please don't sacrifice mergemaster(8) for the successful transition to
Git. The amount of feedback on the mailing list should give the core_at_
some idea of how widely mergemasted is still deployed. Some people just
like to merge files side by side with pressing keys. Why innocent
mergemaster(8) has to be a victim of switching to Git? Sacrifice please
svnlite(1) - it became completely useless for HEAD and upcoming stable
branches.

Kind regards,

-- 
Marek Zarychta


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